Toh 578The Noble “Dhāraṇī of ‘The Perfection of Wisdom in Eight Thousand Lines’ ”

Summary

This text consists of a short dhāraṇī said to encompass one of the most
esteemed sūtras in the Kangyur, The Perfection of Wisdom
in Eight Thousand Lines (Toh 12), and the benefits of its
recitation.

Acknowledgements

The text was translated from Tibetan by the Buddhapīṭha Translation Group
(Gergely Hidas and Péter-Dániel Szántó).

The translation was completed under the patronage and supervision of 84000:
Translating the Words of the Buddha. Andreas Doctor edited the translation and
the introduction, and Laura Goetz copyedited the text. Martina Cotter was in
charge of the digital publication process.

Introduction

This text consists of a short dhāraṇī said to encompass one of the most
esteemed sūtras in the Kangyur, The Perfection of
Wisdom in Eight Thousand Lines, and the benefits of its recitation.
The parent text is widely accepted as the most important presentation of the
Perfection of Wisdom.

Such short texts served a variety of purposes, the primary one being that by
reciting them one could acquire the positive karmic benefits of reciting an
entire, sometimes extremely long, text. On a practical level, the recitation
of these short texts also served as an equivalent to the recitation of the
parent text, should a prescribed ritual so require.

The text lacks both a Sanskrit title and a translator’s colophon, and we
could not find it transmitted in Sanskrit.

This translation was made principally on the basis of the Tibetan
translations of the text found in the Tantra Collection (rgyud ’bum) and the Compendium of Dhāraṇīs
(gzungs ’dus) in the Degé Kangyur.

The Translation

The Dhāraṇī of “The Perfection of Wisdom in Eight Thousand

Lines”

Homage to the Blessed Lady, the Mother Perfection of Wisdom.

By upholding this, one will have upheld The Perfection
of Wisdom in Eight Thousand Lines. It will block all kinds of negative
omens. All karmic obscurations and unfavorable kinds of rebirth will be
purified.

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